DESERTED HIS SHIP
ADMITTED TO PROBATION MAGISTRATE’S COMMENT (By Telcß-rnnh —»'ro<s Association) AUCKLAND, Wednesday A plea of guilty to a charge of deserting the steamer, Tongariro, at Auckland on February 14 was given by John Thomas Dryden Richardson, aged 29, second cook and baker. The police said Richardson had been working in the Rotorua district, where he was arrested on Monday. The Magistrate, Mr F. H. Levien, said that in view of the fact that Richardson had settled down he would convict and admit him to probation for 12 months. He added it was not the practice to grant probation to every man so charged, and addressing Richardson, said: “ You must react to the leniency shown you. The records of this Court show that deserters arc not always what they should be.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20921, 28 September 1939, Page 3
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168DESERTED HIS SHIP Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20921, 28 September 1939, Page 3
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